Vance sees success in early rape kit test results

June 14, 2016 | Politico

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office touted the early returns on an $80 million project to clear the nation’s rape kit testing backlog Tuesday, a day after he gave a keynote speech on the topic in Washington. The initiative, launched last September with $38 million in funding from his office alone, seeks to test the more than 56,000 rape kits sitting on…